02327cam a22002777 4500001000700000003000500007005001700012008004100029100002000070245011600090260006600206490004200272500002000314520098500334530006101319538007201380538003601452690006701488690014801555690013001703700002201833710004201855830007701897856003801974856003702012w11636NBER20170817234413.0170817s2005 mau||||fs|||| 000 0 eng d1 aNeumark, David.10aDo School-To-Work Programs Help the "Forgotten Half"?h[electronic resource] /cDavid Neumark, Donna Rothstein. aCambridge, Mass.bNational Bureau of Economic Researchc2005.1 aNBER working paper seriesvno. w11636 aSeptember 2005.3 aThis paper tests whether school-to-work (STW) programs are particularly beneficial for those less likely to go to college in their absence----often termed the ""forgotten half"" in the STW literature. The empirical analysis is based on the NLSY97, which allows us to study six types of STW programs, including job shadowing, mentoring, coop, school enterprises, tech prep, and internships/apprenticeships. For men there is quite a bit of evidence that STW program participation is particularly advantageous for those in the forgotten half. For these men, specifically, mentoring and coop programs increase post-secondary education, and coop, school enterprise, and internship/apprenticeship programs boost employment and decrease idleness after leaving high school. There is less evidence that STW programs are particularly beneficial for women in the forgotten half, although internship/apprenticeship programs do lead to positive earnings effects concentrated among these women. aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers. aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files. aMode of access: World Wide Web. 7aI28 - Government Policy2Journal of Economic Literature class. 7aJ15 - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants • Non-labor Discrimination2Journal of Economic Literature class. 7aJ24 - Human Capital • Skills • Occupational Choice • Labor Productivity2Journal of Economic Literature class.1 aRothstein, Donna.2 aNational Bureau of Economic Research. 0aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)vno. w11636.4 uhttp://www.nber.org/papers/w1163641uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w11636